Here's a small new release, mostly containing bugfixes but also some new features and improvements with regards to DPI-awareness. The biggest improvement here is that you can now zoom the built-in pattern fonts, or even use your own system fonts for pattern drawing! I bet you always wanted to track music in Comic Sans or Wingdings...

Oh, thats awesome, so now I can actually zoom out more by using a smaller font! cool! I bet I can now fit 128 rows on a single screen (big resolution here, and I can already fit about 96 rows on a screen).

YAY!

EDIT: OMG, OpenMPT looks really sexy with Small Fonts, 6 or 7. And with Small Fonts,5 I can actually have 128 rows on the screen at all times! this is so awesome!

« Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 23:36:22 by LPChip »

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"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

Small Fonts does work pretty well on 5 or higher, though 5 is on the edge. I have some good small fonts too. Will try those too.

The only thing that is still somewhat wrong, is that it doesn't change the row numbers, so they kind of get "stretched out", aka not fitting in their small boxes.

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"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

haha i had some fun changing the fonts around for a bit but honestly i like the openmpt default small font the best out of them, most of the other fonts seem to stretch out and they aren't very well suited to tracker editing

Yeah, the "problem" is that the built-in fonts are heavily space-optimized. The tracker has knowledge about the width of every letter in those fonts so the font tiles can overlap without occluding parts of the letters. With generic fonts, this is of course not possible, since they could have any shape. However, this feature was mostly implemented with High-DPI devices in mind, i.e. devices where you need a bigger font to read the patterns properly, in which case the bit of extra space is most likely not all that important anymore. And of course the people who always complained that OpenMPT's font is too small for them to read.

« Last Edit: February 17, 2015, 14:11:26 by Saga Musix »

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[A few minutes later.] I found out chars like '`' or '*' if used in note names (e. g. 'C*') of a custom tuning still map to space in pattern editor, although a custom font contains them. Could you fix this in the next release?